The Mom Enterprise

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Megan Tuohy

Megan Tuohy was born and raised in San Diego, California, and after graduating from U.C. Irvine with a degree in English, moved to New York with a very specific idea of what city life would bring after watching too many episodes of "Sex and the City" and "Law & Order: SVU." She's grateful her life didn't turn out like *either* of those shows. After spending a few years working in the non-for-profit arts world, she fell into, and in love with, television production. Since 2010, she has worked as a writer and producer for various talk and reality shows, currently working for "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" on Bravo. But the most important part of her life is her family: her husband Matt (m. 2014), daughters Eleanor (b. 2015) and Margot (b. 2017), and two rescue dogs, Iggy and Lars. She spends every day trying to balance it all, never successfully does, but loves her life anyway.

Listen to hear more about Megan's story:

- Becoming a mom... when you're ready, you're ready!

- Life with two little girls and a career in Television.

- Having two babies close in age.

- Making individual time for each daughter.

- The Dos, The Don'ts and what makes sense.

- Feeling supported in the workplace.

- Bed times, Bath times and Potty Training, oh my!

- The struggle of making time for yourself.

- The weird postpartum things.

- Mom Tip: drink coffee out of a tumbler.

Links mentioned:

Rock 'N Play Sleeper

IG: @megan.t.cady

Bravo: http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Lindsey Hecht

Mom, Wife, and District Sales Leader, Midsouth Crop Protection District – Corteva Agriscience, Ag Division of DowDuPont

Lindsey, her husband Dennis and their 16 month-old daughter live in Hernando, MS with their dogs Cinch and Schnitzel. Lindsey's most important job is mom to daughter Zoe. Lindsey loves listening to Zoe jabber, reading books, playing outside, cooking and simply sitting and watching Zoe play. Managing wife duties, mom duties and work duties makes life demanding at times but being a strong example for Zoe drives Lindsey to push herself professionally and personally.

Growing up in Campbellsburg, KY, Lindsey learned quickly that a sense of community is important, hard work is rewarding and farmers are the most generous and passionate people on the planet. In high school, she was active in FFA (Future Farmers of America) where she won the state public speaking contest speaking on agriculture and the importance of farms. Since then, she got an ag degree from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, she married a farm raised guy from Michigan and won the KY Farm Bureau state discussion meet discussing important topics for KY farmers. Lindsey works for Corteva Agriscience, Ag Division of DowDupont as District Sales Leader in the midsouth. She leads a team who promotes crop protection products in agriculture to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come.

Listen to hear more about Lindsey's story:

• Moms work with moms. Moms work with dads.
• Moms don't always bring up topics about "momming." -Sharing stories makes work mean more.
• If you can negotiate with a 16 month old, you can negotiate anything.
• Leverage your mom skills to be successful at work.
• Jesus and meal prep Food. Focus. My Sunday routine fuels the entire week.
• Don't avoid "tough" topics
• Pumping. Work-life balance.
• Acupuncture & Pregnancy
• "What's in the crock pot?!"

Links mentioned:

Twitter: @Lhecht11

Instagram: @luluhecht

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Amanda Mitchell

Amanda is a mom of one and a half year old, boy/girl twins. She works full time as an administrator at a private school. Amanda has a background as an elementary teacher and her children have given her a front row seat to studying early childhood development. She and her husband live outside of Philadelphia with their two children.

Listen to hear more about Amanda's story:

- Balancing New Mom life with Twins

- Labor 1, Labor 2

- Sleeping and Eating Schedules for two... which way is best?

- Getting out and about with a little one on each hip.

- Twin personalities between Brother and Sister

- Which classes are you in?

- Learning and Adventuring with Mom.

Links mentioned:

Moms on Call Book

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Sara Dean

Sara Dean is the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, which has been featured in 5 categories of iTunes New & Noteworthy for almost 2 years now, and is rapidly approaching one million downloads. Sara's biggest passion is helping women own their space. After enduring her own identity crises following the birth of her son, Sara took her background in psychology/health/ wellness and rebuilt her identity, one step at a time. Sara motivates and inspires women to stop shrinking and start growing. She is on a mission to inspire women and moms, in particular, to live bigger, bolder, braver #everydamnday. When not podcasting, you can find Sara chasing her 5 year old on his new two wheeler bike, trying not to spill her wine.

Listen to hear more about Sara's story:

- Expectations vs Reality of becoming a working mother.

- The first few years.

- Mental Health and the new mom.

- Identity Shifting.

- Seizing all opportunities and starting a Podcast.

- Enjoying the toddler years.

Links mentioned:

• 15 Minute Manifest here: https://d2saw6je89goi1.cloudfront.net/uploads/digital_asset/file/378271/15_Minute_Manifest.pdf
• Access my booklist here: http://shamelessmom.com/booklist/
• Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1092674204
• Connect with Sara: www.shamelessmom.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/shamelessmomacademy
• Free private Facebook Community: www.shamelessmom.com/facebook

• Twitter: @shamelessmom

• FB: The Shameless Mom Academy

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Stephanie Jennings

Stephanie Jennings was born and raised in Allentown, PA, and has since lived in several Mid-Atlantic cities. Her career has spanned social services, economic development, and real estate market research. She earned a Masters in City Planning before moving to Brooklyn in 2007. She now (somewhat surprisingly) enjoys a management role in corporate America. In the spring of 2017, Stephanie and her husband welcomed their daughter, Sophie. Since then, Stephanie has been trying to figure out how to balance the constant pull between work and home, testing out different strategies in an effort to strike a better balance between two competing forces.

Listen to hear more about Stephanie's story:

- The best sleeping schedule... ever.

- Groceries & Dinner: Delivery? or Walking Adventures?

- Maternity Leave Policy and The Work Place

- Balancing Work Ambitions with Mom Ambitions

- Working Mothers vs Working Fathers

Links mentioned:

Baby Brezza Formula Pro

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Serena Vaccarino

Serena Vaccarino is a native New Yorker who lives in Brooklyn with her husband Brett, her daughter Stella and dog Tiger. On her personal time, she enjoys exploring and traveling the world. She has worked in the alcohol industry for over seven years and just started a new job at Beam Suntory as the Off Premise Channel Manager in Metro NY. Shortly after giving birth to her daughter she began graduate school and is working towards an MBA in Food Marketing.

Listen to hear more about Serena's story:

• How she manages grad school, a full time job and motherhood
• How she managed a 9 month old on a flight to Italy
• How she makes time for herself
• What her mommy and daughter time looks like
• How she managed pumping without an office job
• The baby products that changed her life
• How maternity and paternity leave impacted newborn time
• Her delivery experience

Links mentioned:

• Find Serena on Instagram
• Serena's favorite baby items Owlet, Pumparoo and Elevated Pillow

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Jessica Arstingstall

Jessica Arstingstall grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where she attended the University of Louisville and studied Entrepreneurship and Business Management. Her background is primarily in private and corporate Event Planning. Despite having experienced a lot of personal and professional growth organizing, planning and executing corporate events, she decided to leave her position in 2015 to become licensed in Real Estate. In August 2016, she delivered her son, continued working in Real Estate sporadically and then, in March 2018, decided to pursue her dream of becoming a Life Coach. Currently, Jessica is conducting her 4-week, Fit-to-Feel program for small groups of women who want physical activity to be a sustainable part of their everyday lives, but allow self-doubt, insecurity and fear to get in their way. She is also the founder of the Fit-to-Feel Community on Facebook, where women can go and share their fitness journeys with like-minded women, and be met with love and support.

Listen to hear more about Jessica's story:

-Being prepared for an Identity Shift.

-Boundaries for yourself and your child.

-Scheduling and Establishing a routine.

-Taking "You Time" and why it's important for your mental health.

-Who you want to be in this life and the role model you will become.

-The life changing lessons of becoming a mother.

-The Fit to Feel Community Facebook Group and it's support.

-Therapist vs. Life Coach.

-Illness in Infancy... the struggle and the support.

-Friendships before and after having children.

-By the way in case you didn't know... kids repeat everything.

Links mentioned:

SwaddleMe Original Swaddle

Join our Facebook Group Fit-to-Feel Community

Follow Jessica's Facebook Page @jessarst

or https://www.facebook.com/jessarst

Follow Jessica's Instagram @jessarst & hashtags #fittofeel #fit2feel and #jessarst

Contact Jessica at [email protected]

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Missy Rezny

Missy Rezny grew up in Witchita, Kansas and studied Magazine Journalism at the University of Missouri. After graduating in 2007 she moved to New York and landed a job at Uncommon Goods as a Copywriter for product email marketing and their catalogue. That role developed to become Head Writer and Associate Art Director and Missy was pivotal at developing their brand voice, launching their blog, partnering on new product launches and helping to lead the redesign of the website. Since 2010 she's worked at Macy's as a Writer, Copy Manager and now Creative Director with expertise in branding events, user experience and social media. Missy met her husband ten years ago in New York and they welcomed their first son Lincoln April 2017. In addition to working full time and being a mom, Missy tried to balance other passions for creative writing, planning social events with friends, lading a feminist book club, reading and enriching her interior life.

Listen to hear more about Missy's story

- Southern roots in the City Life

- The Modern Mom & Launching a Book Club

- Balancing Family Life with Work Life

- Macy's and the workplace

- Plated... life saver.

- His & Hers maternity/paternity leave

- Birth story love, breastfeeding and postpartum

- Instincts... trust it.

- Help and when it feels appropriate.

- "Spirit Days"

- Friends are Family

- Date Nights.

Links mentioned

Gourmet Babe babe: https://www.amazon.com/B%C3%A9b%C3%A9-Gourmet-French-Inspired-Recipes-Adventurous/dp/1615190708

Wrap:https://www.didymos.com/en/

Website: www.missyrezney.com

The Wolfpack https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876

Instagram: @missymissyleigh

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Jennifer Prestigiacomo

Jennifer Prestigiacomo grew up in Sugarland, TX and moved to New York City in 2003 after college. She spent her 20's exploring the city, making new friends and building her journalism communications career. It was a role at a large New York City based IBM that took her in a different direction where she fell in love with employee communications. Fifteen years, a husband and two kids later, Jennifer felt the siren song of Texas pulling her back home. This January, Jennifer and her family moved back to Austin and is enjoying being closer to her parents and childhood friends.

Listen to hear more about Jennifer's story:

-Moving back to her home state of Texas

-Raising two boys with a French influence

-City Life vs. Country Living

-The joys and perks of raising your children near family and childhood friends

-Maternity leave with IBM and other amazing policies

-The day to day hustle of this working mom

-Sleep Training Tactics

-Having a second baby and what to consider

-Pregnant mom/toddler wrangler… not all heroes wear capes

- "Managing the Chaos"

-Breast Feeding. Challenges and Games Plans

-Preschool experiences and how to find what works best for your child

-Reasoning with a Caveman

-Mom Game Changers, Me Time & Self Care

Links mentioned:

Hamilton Pool

Deep Eddy Pool

Barton Springs Pool

The Happiest Baby on the Block

The Happiest Toddler on the Block

Ergobaby 360 Baby Carrier

Website: www.presitgiacomo.me

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Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Lindsey Palmer

Lindsey Palmer is a writer and educator. She is the author of novels Pretty in Ink, If We Lived Here, and the forthcoming Otherwise Engaged (to be published in January 2019). She worked for many years in the magazine industry, most recently as Features Editor at Self, and previously at Redbook and Glamour. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she earned a Master of Arts in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and taught A.P. Literature and Creative Writing at a public high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nowadays, she's a scriptwriter at BrainPOP, an educational site for kids. Her scripts cover a wide range of topics, from Nuclear Fusion and Autism to Emily Dickinson and the Tuskegee Airmen, and get animated into short movies to be used in the classroom. Lindsey is an enthusiast of yoga, cooking, park picnics, and her bad-ass book club. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and 10-month-old daughter.

Listen to hear more about Lindsey's story:

-Sunday afternoons with her Bad-Ass Book Club and baby girl in tow.

-The mystery of pregnancy and meeting your baby for the first time.

-The hard moments of new Motherhood and the adventure of adjusting .

-Being an active, working mom and the art of balancing family life with work life.

-Interactive children classes... yay or nay?

-Surviving the first few weeks after childbirth.

-Pioneering Paternity Leave in the workplace.

-Being a creative in Children's Education and producing educational videos for all ages.

-Creative Jobs and Maternity Leave.

-The Urban Life. the Urban Family.

-Supporting Public Schools in the city.

-Thoughts on weaning.

-Lindsey talks about her upcoming third novel, Otherwise Engaged.

Links mentioned:

Instagram: @lindseyjpalmer

Lindsey's Website- https://lindseyjpalmer.com/

Physique57- https://ondemand.physique57.com/site/beta

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